Media Player Winamp Shutting Down on December 20, 2013

[DoggY DoG]

After serving music lovers for around 16 years, AOL confirmed on Wednesday that the Winamp website and associated web services will no longer be available past December 20, 2013, and the Winamp Media Player will no longer be available for download. Thanks for supporting the Winamp community for over 15 years.

Loved Winamp back in the day. Easiest and coolest music player until extra stuff got added in.

Worst news of the year. RIP Winamp

Source: The Verge

 

[Rox]

End of an era man, seriously!

 

[HostUS]

Sad news man.

 

[hdspot.net]

I still use it

 

[Krack3r]

Me too. What will happen to the source code. Some other team can keep on the good work the AOL have been doing with this app I see big potential esp since they have rolled out to all major platforms

 

[Nenad__]

RIP Winamp...

 

[cvrle77]

End of an era man, seriously!

I'm sure that era ended up long time before they announced this.

 

[blkhtr007]

It may not be over.

​Source: Microsoft In Talks To Buy Shoutcast And Winamp From AOL | TechCrunch

 

[Rox]

Microsoft is wasting money if they buy it lol

 

[Cheetah]

MS will add it to their new Windows versions

 

[bluefirepro]

Even at this stage WINAMP with its services generate $6 million annually.

 

[Bretteo]

Winamp still has many loyal fans, including myself

 

[Bretteo]

Also, i clicked go pro and a download popped up rather than the option to pay.. possibility that the pro version is now free?

 

[riz]

Sad ...

 

[Cometolearn]

why are they killing there app for no reason , something is fishy ....

 

[Andrew24]

Don't do it! If winamp will not run my life does not make sense ;/

 

[UnknownX]

really sad it was the first player i downloaded ever

 

[acexxx]

Save Winamp(wow over 40K signatures)http://www.change.org/en-AU/petitions/save-winamp

 

[BlackCows]

Stopped using winamp a few years ago.Although it's kinda sad to know that it is shutting down.

 

[blkhtr007]

Save Winamp(wow over 40K signatures)http://www.change.org/en-AU/petitions/save-winamp

A Kickstarter would have been much better than a petition.